Day 2 In Madrid
My first tour! Cait and I woke up at 9:52 a.m. Our tour started at 10 a.m. We rushed downstairs, grabbed a piece of bread for breakfast and made it just in time for the tour! Our group took two buses. We saw parks, an enormous statue of Don Quixote, the outside of the Real Madrid stadium, two famous museums, cathedrals and, my favorite part, the palace! We toured the palace for about two hours. The crystal chandeliers and intricate decorations blew my mind away. I couldn’t imagine living in a palace with over 200 rooms.
After the tour, Cait and I ate lunch at the hotel. A “jamon und huevo” sandwich. After lunch I had my first SIESTA! In Spain, they take about one to two hours a day for a siesta! The whole city shuts down and everyone takes a nap or just rests. Cait and I took about a four-hour siesta. It was glorious!
When we woke up, it was time for dinner. We showered and got pretty dressed up to go to a tapas restaurant. There was a large group with us. Rucio and her two Spanish friends came! We went to a restaurant in the middle of the Plaza Mayor.
Earlier that day we went to the grocery store and bought cheap boxed wine! I got Sangria! It is illegal to have open containers in public in Spain and it just so happened the only place we could drink our juice boxes of wine was in an area of Madrid where there was a Gay Festival going on. It was Gay Pride week in Madrid and there was a parade going on that night. It was a really neat experience. Everyone was having such a good time! Gregg even bought our group a bottle of champagne to celebrate the 4th of July!! We tried to sing “God Bless America” in the middle of thousands of Spaniards! It was awesome! We only stayed for about an hour until we headed to our next destination…
We hopped on the Metro and headed to the place where I felt most at home: the Real Madrid Stadium. There is restaurant/club inside the stadium. When we walked in I was in awe. Yes, everyone here has given me a hard time about it, but I even started crying! It was so incredible to see a SOCCER stadium as big as the football stadiums in America. Every game they fill the stadium with 90,000 screaming fans all dressed up in red and yellow!
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